THE ABSTRACTIONS - Edgetone Records Romus – alto & soprano sax, flute, voice, zitherod Ray Schaeffer – bass Novo Navigatio (New Journey) is the Abstractions' third release of innovative

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EDT 4027THE ABSTRACTIONSNovo NavigatioCJ Borosque- noise pedals, guitar Matt Davignon – turntableErnesto Diaz-Infante – vocals, guitar, 4-track Dina Emerson - voicePhillip Everett – drums, autoharp, percussion Bob Marsh - cello, voice,Rent Romus – alto & soprano sax, flute, voice, zitherod Ray Schaeffer – bass

Novo Navigatio (New Journey) is the Abstractions' third release of innovative and cutting sonic landscapes. This is "Vision music" that consists of acolorful orchestration of vocals, saxophones, guitars, percussion, strings, electronics and more. Also included is wonderful sinking commentary aboutthe disillusioned atmosphere of the current political climate we live and breathe in today’s world.

Style: experimental improvisationFormat: CDRetail: $13.00

EDT 4019THE ABSTRACTIONSArs VivendeErnesto Diaz-Infante - vocals, words, guitar, guitaint, elec bass, 4-track, ebowdrone, Dina Emerson - voice, words, bells Phillip Everett – drums Sandor Finta -voice Lance Grabmiller –laptop Bob Marsh - cello, voice, accordion JesseQuattro - vocals, words, bells Alwyn Quebido - electric guitar Rent Romus – sax,flute, voice, perc, toys

This is the second release from The Abstractions entitled, ARS VIVENDE (the art of living) This growing West Coast collective continues to explore musicin all its elements, foregoing the rules and demolishing walls.“At times, the album is on an energy level of feral chaos, much like the grindcore experimental work of Brutal Truth, while other times its more droningvocal noise, soundscapish, or just frantic free jazz. In fact, the entire album is pretty much non-stop action, with little in the way of calm musicality.”


EDT 4012THE ABSTRACTIONSSonic ConspiracyErnesto Diaz-Infante - prepared guitars, keyboards, toys, radio, voiceBob Marsh - vibes/violin, voice Scott R Looney - percussionJesse Quattro – vocals Rent Romus - alto/soprano saxes, flute, voice, toys

The Abstractions began with a thought between Bay Area musician/producers Ernesto Diaz-Infante and Rent Romus. From that thought grew theensemble you see before you. Taking from a cross section of music genres and backgrounds, The Abstractions present an unclassifiable set of newsonic textures evoking thought and feelings about life and culture. Drawing from an improvisational body of knowledge the unspoken wordstransformed to music, history, and social insight make up the musical repertoire encased in their new release Sonic Conspiracy.


EDT 4052ROBERT ANBIAN AND THE UNIDENTIFIED FLYING QUARTETS/TRobert Anbian - voice, poetry E. Doctor Smith - The Drummstick, samplesCharles Unger - tenor & soprano saxophonesSam Peoples -acoustic & electric piano, samplesMike Shea - acoustic & electric bass

From the San Francisco poetry underground comes the voice of Robert Anbian, backed by electronic percussionist E. “Doc” Smith and Bay Area saxlegend Charles Unger, plus keyboardist Sam Peoples and bassist Mike Shea. UFQ makes its own magic inspired by the music of Miles Davis, TheloniusMonk, and Bobby Hutcherson, with infusions of Brian Eno, the Grateful Dead, and something else. Notes Anbian: “I call the post-fusion, world beat jazzthese guys play ‘acid-bop’ – it’s got more possibilities for poetry than the typical verse-chorus cadences of popular music.”

Style: acid jazzFormat: CDRetail: $13.00

THE ABSTRACTIONS

ROBERT ANBIAN

EDT 4068BLOOM PROJECTPrismatic Season(Live at the Sudden Sound Series Krannert Art Museum)Thollem Mcdonas - pianoRent Romus - alto and soprano saxophone, fluteJon Brumit - drums, small objectsSteven Baker – challis drone

In October of 2006 the Bloom Project performed at the Sudden Sound Series presented by the Krannert Art Museum in Champaign/Urbana at theUniversity of Illinois while on their first tour through the heartland of the United States. The live CD recording features the group's signature wideranging free group improvisations as well as some of the textual and graphical scores from their first CD 'Bloom'. The album also features the debutsound recording of instrument inventor Steven Baker's challis drone as a closing track recorded in Pacifica California in 2007.

Style: avant-garde jazzFormat: CDRetail: $12.00

BLOOM PROJECT

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EDT 4036BLOOM PROJECTBloomThollem Mcdonas - piano, voice, bellsRent Romus - saxophones, voice, electronicsJon Brumit - drums, electronics, objectsSteven Baker - The Bellows

A spirited and colossal collaboration between pianist Thollem Mcdonas, multi-saxophonist and electronician Rent Romus, instrument builder StevenBaker, and drummer and found-object player Jon Brumit. The CD features free group improvisations as well as interpretations of numerous textual andgraphical scores offered up by Mcdonas and Brumit. The entire album is an organic construction and expression of solos, duos, and trios combiningdisparate and divergent stylistic histories with a sense of refreshing immediacy, intensity, and spontaneous inventiveness.


EDT 4020CJ BOROSQUEMachineCJ Borosque - guitar, pedals

Multi-artist CJ Borosque pulls no punches with her first release of solo guitar saturated in noise, distortion, and looping.

Style: noiseFormat: CDRetail: $12.00

EDT 4031JON BRUMITVendetta RetreatJon Brumit- sound devices

Jon Brumit's composed and improvised music incorporating percussion, electronics, sampling, found objects, and signal processing has beenlabeled "physically debilitating" and "intellectually refreshing" by art critics, and his performances have been declared "disarmingly powerful"and "extremely adventurous and explosive [for ambient music]" by rock and noise musicians. Not bad for an artist whose last release wasmade entirely with garbage from the San Francisco Dump. Vendetta Retreat is an amalgamation of Jon's sound and visual explorations.Set to a Motion Picture yet to be made, Jon plans to create the visual project based on clips supplied by anyone wishing to contribute.

Style: electronic, soundtrackFormat: CDRetail: $13.00

EDT 4041JON BRUMITpileDRIVERJon Brumit- dump

This album was recorded at the San Francisco Dump entirely from items collected at the dump. As an artist-in-residence at the San Franciscodump, for example, Brumit made a CD in 2002 called "Piledriver," which samples the sounds of discarded objects including clock radios, bowlingballs and a 16 mm movie projector. to contribute.

Style: experimentalFormat: CDRetail: $13.00

EDT 4032CJ BOROSQUEBedlamC.J. Reaven Borosque – fx pedals

Her own exposition and exploration of the fine lines between madness and the exposure of unconscious thought, through the process ofcreating reverberating noise, industrial sound scapes and electronic rhythmic pulses (more analog than digital). This is a pensive, broodingrelease. Influences include Merzbow, Einsturzende Neubauten, and Musique Concrete. File this under noise-industrial-sonic sculpture.


CJ BOROSQUE

JON BRUMIT

EDT 4070CJ BOROSQUE + ROBERT M. / INSTAGONBeautifulCJ Borosque - electronicsRobert M. - desktop computerLOB - bass, metal objects percussion, mixer controlDr. Oblivious – keyboard; Chad E. Williams - guitar

Beautiful is about nature, its cruelty… its horror and its fragility. The spider on the cover is meant to convey both the astonishing power of lifeas well as its destructive force. Throughout the career of CJ Borosque she has offered up her noise-ventures as singular commentary ofpsychological states of being that come from the intersection of her consciousness with society and the tensions that arise from that conflict.This album in neither nihilistic nor dystopian, but is instead a celebration of the vitality of the animal world and the veracity of nature. Thesetracks represent the wanderings of a mad mind that is illuminated by understanding on the brink of twilight.





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EDT 4040C.O.M.A.Ornamental Urban ShrubberyJohn Vaughn - saxophonesDax Compise - drumsZone - electric cello

Ornamental Urban Shrubbery is their second CD release. Hidden between buildings, in vacant lots, in planters by the sidewalk or in the cracks of thestreet the city is filled with urban shrubbery. Often passed by, looked over and unnoticed until that moment when one doesn't pass.


EDT 5003C.O.M.A.California Outside Music AssociatesJohn Vaughn - saxophones Dax Compise- drumsBrian Clark - bassguest appearance by: Rent Romus- C-melody saxophone # 2 & 6

C.O.M.A. (California Outside Music Associates), inspired by the influences of Ornette Coleman and world music, blend sound creating a free expressivemusic. Originating from backgrounds in music education and performance, their styles have ranged from classical to modern rock and everything inbetween. Their debut CD on Edgetone features original composition featuring their unique explorations and solid music traditions.


EDT 4030MATT DAVIGNON“Bwoo”MATT DAVIGNON - drum machine

Style: experimental electronicFormat: CDRetail: $13.00

Matt Davignon has developed a unique form of improvisation over the last 10 years, focusing on textures, arrhythmic patterns and musicalimperfections. Creating music that is at once elemental and intricately ambient, he explores the outer dimensions of experimentation, exploring thedynamic relationship between chaos, order, and indeterminism. Matt Davignon’s project, “Bwoo”, evokes biology and the mystery of elementalstructure in nature and in sound. Using a drum machine as his singular sound source, he warps, bends, and multiplies the beats, creating sound-scapesas diverse and ambient as they are complex and organically beautiful.

EDT 4039MATT DAVIGNONSoft Wet FishMATT DAVIGNON - drum machine


SoftWetFish is Matt's second CD to use drum machine as the only sound source (after 2005's "Bwoo"). Not at all like the rhythms and beats one wouldexpect, the sounds are very abstract, characterized by organic tapestries, drones, frantic passages and lovely flaws.

EDT 4058CONUREThe Generation of Our GrandfathersConure – laptop and other assorted lo-fi equipment and sound sources

In July of 2003, a documentary was broadcast on HBO while Conure was packing for a (cancelled) move to Berlin. "Paragraph 175" was a documentaryportraying the Nazi persecution of homosexuals because of Paragraph 175 of the German Penal Code of 1871. Conure knew this persecution hadexisted, but little beyond that. This documentary inspired him to create a new audio work as a way to interest others as ignorant as he to watch thefilm, but primarily as a way to portray the feelings the documentary brought forth in Conure.

Style: ambient noiseFormat: CDRetail: $13.00

C.O.M.A.

MATT DAVIGNON

CONURE




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EDT 4024MATT DAVIGNONMusic at ½ SpeedMatt Davignon - guitar, sampler, drum machine, turntable, harmonica, toypiano, bass guitar, violin, tape, memory man, television, keyboard, vocals,micro-synthesizer, didgeridoo, quadraverbRafter Roberts - moog(#7)/guitar(#8)

Matt Davignon revisited several tracks he recorded between 1994 and 1997 which he refers to as his "pop song" period, through the use of livetelevision, tape machines, and delay pedal feedback. He then mixed them into new slow motion versions, shifting several of them into reverse. Theresulting tracks are unusual music to be played in 4/4 tempo much like an imaginary 40 foot tall upset stomach. Other tracks sound like misunderstoodexaggerations of trip-hop.


EDT 4038EDDIE THE RATOnce Around The Butterfly BushDan Ake - Lobro, Spike, 2x6 Ronnie Camaro - bass, vocalsPeter J. Martin - piano, cajon (left ft), bass drum (right ft), vocals, Balinesegangsa, Long- Boy, Proto Molly Tascone - vocals, recorder, glockenspiel, steeldrum, triangle

Eddie the Rat music is "head music for your feet": conceptual in inspiration, primal and visceral in execution. Amoeba Records calls it "sexy avant-garde." Inspired by Indonesian gamelan, American & European folk, and modern 12-tone music, Eddie the Rat tries to bridge the gap between ritual,roots, and concert music. "Ladders that reach up to the stratosphere of tempos weren’t possible until Eddie the Rat fell upon the indie scene...intriguing and awe-inspiring..."-J. Sin, Editors Pick Smother Magazine

Style: avant-garde rock compositionFormat: CDRetail: $13.00

EDT 4060EDDIE THE RATInsomnia Sound BibleAll compositions conceived by Peter J. martin

Eddie the Rat is the pseudonym for composer and multi-instrumentalist, Peter Martin. Starting in 2000 as a one-man electro-acoustic experiment insound and composition, within a year Martin’s vision evolved into a performing group bearing the same name. During the first two years of the group’sexistence, the ensemble usually consisted of no less than 12 members and included members of 7 year rabbit cycle, Secret Chiefs, Zen Guerrilla, andothers. “Insomnia Sound Bible” is a recording of the shorter songs that were being played alongside larger scale pieces in the group’s live sets at thistime.

Style: rock experimentalFormat: CDRetail: $13.00

EDT 406215 DEGREES BELOW ZERONew TravelDaniel Blomquist - laptop, samplers, keyboards, effects, mixing, processingMichael Addison Mersereau - guitar, keyboards, vocals, harmonica, effects,mixing, processing, etc.Mark Wilson - pedals, contact mics, vocals, keyboards, laptop, samplers, othereffects, mixing, processing, etc.

15 Degrees Below Zero's CD "New Travel" builds upon the process oriented soundscapes of previous releases to create new refined, compositionalnarratives that emerge between the planes of discord and melody. The eleven tracks explore transitory spaces of cinematic like sound interiors, digitaland analog atmospheres accompanied by guitar, piano, and sampled melodies -- clipped, recontextualized and re-presented.

Style: Experimental ElectronicIndustrialFormat: CDRetail: $13.00

EDT 4065(THE) GIANTS OF GENDERSelf TitledAndy Meyer -reedsKyle Farrell -vibraphone, percussionJenna Barvitski - violin, viola

A violent rejection of certain traditions has become an integral element of the trio's music. They cross the border of genre and style within the contextof combining composition and non-idiomatic improvisation woven throughout this debut project.

Style: experimental improvisation &compositionFormat: CDRetail: $13.00

EDDIE THE RAT

15 DEGREES BELOW ZERO

(the) GIANTS OF GENDER




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EDT 4035DR.BOBDark TimesBob Marsh - voice, electronics, celloDavid Michalak - lap steel guitarspecial guest Karen Stackpole, drums

Doctor Bob plays songs for a dark and bitter world. They range from scary to the surreal to the abstract and frequently dwell in a space between ideaand word.Doctor Bob is a project of Bob Marsh (whose mother always wanted him to be a doctor) and David Michalak (whose favorite TV show was Mr. Wzard).Bob Marsh sings, rants and yowls whilst committing unnatural acts with his cello and other electronic devices creating a unique chemistry with theequally unnatural lap steel guitar style of David Michalak.


EDT 4043Guillermo Galindo a.k.a gal*in dogS_ndGuillermo Galindo a.k.a. gal*in_dog - found objects, laptop, electronics

Guillermo Galindo's artistic work spans a wide spectrum of artistic expression from symphonic composition to the domains of musical computerinteraction, electro-acoustic music, opera, film music, performance, instrument building, and multimedia installation and soundscape design.

Style: electronicFormat: CDRetail: $13.00

EDT 4015THE KliP trioHerman Sonny Blount(Omniversal Embassador)Elliot Kallen – piano, percussion, electronicsJohn Lauffenburger- bass, electronicsGarth Powell- drums, percussion

KLiP's music comes from so many divergent sources that "pigeon-holing" it is nearly impossible. Influences range from Albert Ayler, John Cage, MilesDavis, Ornette Coleman, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Cecil Taylor, John Zorn, and many others. Elliot and Garth are the primary composers and arrangersfor KLiP. Though each of their pieces may have a finely honed interior structure, there is often room for improvisational explorations. Be it acontemplative melodic study or a fierce electronic onslaught, the music of KLiP is that of surprise and discovery.

Style: avant-garde jazzFormat: LPRetail: $16.00

EDT 4054GHOST IN THE HOUSEDavid Michalak - lap steel guitar, buffalo drumKaren Stackpole - gongs, percussionKyle Bruckmann - oboe, English hornTom Nunn - crustacean, water phone & other original inventions

Conceived by filmmaker & musician David Michalak, Ghost in the House explores ethereal and elemental soundscapes where music suggests an image.Stackpole’s swelling gongs resonate with Nunn’s sculptural inventions creating other worldly scenarios with Michalak’s eerie lap steel and Bruckmann’sominous horns adding texture and detail.

Style: improvisationFormat: CDRetail: $13.00

EDT 4057GOLD RECORD STUDIOLive at Laney Flea Market

Epic, bizarre, melodic, noisy, surprising, and most of all .. beautiful! In the spirit of bringing commerce-free, live music into situations where it is leastexpected, Oakland artists Jon Brumit and Lisa Mezzacappa announce the debut of GOLD RECORD STUDIO, a free public recording studio at the LaneyCollege Swap meet. The public was invited to the flea market every Sunday from April 15 through May 20, 2007 to record a GOLD RECORD on the spot,with guest Bay Area musicians.

Style: compilationFormat: 2-CDRetail: $16.00

GHOST IN THE HOUSE

GOLD RECORD STUDIO

GILLERMO GALINDO

KLIP TRIO

BOB MARSH




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Recursive Heretics explores the concept of feedback at all levels between a performer and a processor in a live improvisational setting. Together theyexplore the concept of feedback in live performance, as the sound of Aaron Bennett’s saxophone is transformed by live, automated and manipulatedsignal processing using a customized Max/MSP setup. The results of this processing vary from subtle shifts in the original sound to a completely uniqueand distinct voice.

EDT 4016RECURSIVE HERETICSS/TAaron Benett - soprano saxophoneScott R. Looney - laptop max msp processing


EDT 4037THOLLEM MCDONASSONOCONTENTODISTAREQUAEdoardo Ricci - saxophoneThollem Mcdonas - piano

This album was recorded on the 16th of December, 2005 in an old cold stone house in the tuscan hills outside of Florence. It was a meeting of a coupleof hours between Edoardo Ricci and Thollem Mcdonas. Edoardo is a highly regarded long time improvisor in Italy who has up to now not been fullyintroduced in the states. In this great old cold house was a great old beatup rickety wild intoned piano. Thollem loves wild pianos because with theencouragement of natural forces they have rebelled against the expectations of western human ears.


EDT 5005THOLLEM/RIVERAEverything’s Going EverywhereThollem Mcdonas – piano, vocalsRick Rivera - drums

Everything’s Going Everywhere, featuring pianist Thollem Mcdonas and drummer Rick Rivera bring to the jazz world a sonic journey bursting withexcitement well needed in jazz and improvisation in the 21st century. Drawing from such diverse forms of inspiration as nuclear bombs, modernclassical and Arabic music, to free jazz, punk, and traffic sounds, these two musical Iconoclasts transcend the past, and the limits of their influences,re-organizing traditional ideas into a sonic commentary about the space between rebellion, politics, and hummingbirds.


EDT 4061SCOTT LOONEYRepercussionsScott R Looney – piano/hyperpiano

Scott Looney's newest release in seven years since his debut recording "solo piano" on Edgetone represents an artistic crossroads in his evolutionperforming solo piano and hyperpiano(using semi-prepared elements/techniques) style as documented over these many years.


EDT 4066BOXDESERTERTwo RevolutionsBrad Duncan – Lecture Hasan Abdur-Razzaq - ReedsMichael Carey – Reeds Marko Novachcoff - ReedsJoel Peterson - Double Bass Kurt Prisbe - DrumsSteven Baker - Laotian Mouth Organ Thollem McDonas - Piano, Conduction

Recorded live in Detroit at the Boehmian National Home, the performance captured a semi-structured improvisation of seven musical participants and ashort interwoven recitation about Portuguese colonization of Africa and the eventual uprising centuries later. The lineup came together spontaneously andresults in many combinations of timbre, seamless transitions, abundant ideas, and virtuosic interaction. This is a sonic story of violence, oppression, andrebellion. There's a plethora of characters that rattle in and out, drawing inspiration from Igor Stravinsky, Charles Mingus and Pauline Oliveros meet.


SCOTT R LOONEY

THOLLEM MCDONASEDT 4067THOLLEM MCDONAS/ARINGTON de DIONYSOIntuition, Science, And SexThollem McDonas – Beatup PianoArrinton de Dionyso – Bass Clarinet

IntuitionScienceAndSex is a free trio album meditation on one mode with two musicians and drone machines. On September 11th, 2007 ArringtondeDionyso (Bass Clarinet) and Thollem McDonas (Rickety Old Beat-Up Piano) met in an industrial area of Portland with a simple question and complicatedanswers. Simplicity and complexity in their respective perfections, each idea developed over long spans of time. The result is a very different kind ofalbum for both of these two prolific musicians.





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EDT 5005aTHOLLEM/RIVERAI'll meet You Half Way Out In theMiddle Of it AllThollem Mcdonas – piano, vocalsRick Rivera - drums

Thollem/Rivera plays both fully composed pieces and organized improvisations, absorbing ideas from many different sources and mixing them up untilthey often no longer resemble their original state. This music is of the world, a result of, and as interaction in it. Nuclear bombs, modern classicalmusic, free jazz, cave paintings, gamelan and West-African drumming ensembles, flowers, weather patterns, Chinese and Hindustani music, cracks,lies, enzymes, punk, wind, traffic, whispers, chants, and chance, among infinite others, all play some kind of a role in the development of this music.

Style: avant-garde jazz compositionFormat: CDRetail: $13.00

EDT 4050MOE! STAIANO'S MOE!KESTRA!Two Rooms of Uranium in 83 MarkersMoe! Staiano - ConductorFeaturing: Carla Kihlstedt, Ches Smith, Devon Hoff, and many more

The album documents two performances at the former Oakland Box Theater, in Oakland, California. The first show was a fun, fast and quickperformance with a small group of 10 musicians that was part of a benefit show, ‘LET'S USE OUR CRANIUM AND LEARN ABOUT DEPLETED URANIUM’back in May of 2003. The second took place using two rooms of two ensembles at the same time.

Style: Classical Avant-gardeFormat: Replicated CDRetail: $13.00

EDT 4042NIHIL COMMUNICATIONWe are violentNihil Communcication - The instrumentation variesdependent on mood and atmosphere...Synthesizers, T-Rodimba, Percussion, Voice, Effects

"It’s close to ambient washes but in a diseased way, like standing beneath power cables when the air hums. He’s got a few things happening in verythin layers, making strange music, creepy rustling, often with an ominous build in the sound before the fog closes in again." - Mick Mercer


EDT 4023NOERTKER’S MOXIESketches of Catalonia: Vol. 1 DaliBill Noertker - bass Annelise Zamula - saxes/fluteJim Peterson - saxes/flute Niels Myrner - drumswith special guest Hugh Schick - trumpet

Inspired by the paintings of Salvador Dali and bassist Bill Noertker’s journeys through Catalonia, Sketches of Catalonia takes the listener to a place werejazz melts into surrealism. What Dali did for painting, this CD does for jazz. Deep swing morphs into circus melodies. Beauty fades into cacophony. Attimes raucous, at times pensive, always soulful, this CD takes you on an aural pilgrimage to Catalonia, birthplace of many innovative artists.

Style: jazzFormat: CDRetail: $13.00

EDT 4051NOERTKER’S MOXIESketches of Catalonia: Vol. 2 Suite for MiróBill Noertker – contrabass Annelise Zamula - tenor saxophone, fluteJason Levis – drums Jenny Maybee - pianoJim Peterson - alto and baritone saxophones, fluteYehudit - 5-string electric violin Hugh Schick - trumpet

Catalonia is the birthplace of many innovative artists, among them Joan Miró, Antoni Gaudí, and Salvador Dalí. In 1995, and again in 2005, I was ableto make a pilgrimage to Catalonia to see the works of these great artists in person. Out of these experiences came an extended suite of music,Sketches of Catalonia.

EDT 4021MOE! STAIANO'S MOE!KESTRA!Two Forms of Multitudes: Conducted ImprovisationsMoe! Staiano - Conductor, percussionINCLUDES OVER 50 BAY AREA ARTISTS

Two Forms of Multitudes is an enormous mass of artists playing in a dissonant array of clusters, forming a wall of lyrical noise. “I have always enjoyedworking with a large orchestra using multitudes of the same instrument. I love large sound or many players playing all at once in a massive frenzy.These shows were conducted improvisations, which evolved with my own style of cueing musicians: using hand cues, on the spot written notation, etc.Sometimes I include a set of prepared written notations. For the pieces presented here, I used a few notations and preparations that were identical forboth shows. It was very interesting how different the results came out varying between the two, in spite of using the same notations.” – Moe! Staiano

Style: Classical Avant-gardeFormat: CDRetail: $13.00


MOE!KESTRA!

NIHIL COMMUNICATION

BILL NOERTKER




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Recorded live at the 2001 Vision Festival, this gem features some of the most creative artists of our time, including one of the last live recordings fromthe legendary bassist Wilber Morris and a stellar performance from guest drummer Michael Wimblery. Oluyemi and Ijeoma Thomas, founders of PositiveKnowledge, have recorded and performed together for the past two decades. They have recorded or performed with artists around the world, includingCecil Taylor, Wadada Leo Smith, Roscoe Mitchell, Alan Silva, Peter Kowald, Henry Kaiser, William Parker, Miya Masaoka & Gino Robair, and “Kidd”Edward Jordan.”


EDT 4047TOM NUNNIdentityTom Nunn, T-Rodimba Mothic Crustacean

This solo CD by master instrument builder Tom Nunn features three of his main inventions: Hybrid Mothics: small triangular shaped boards with“zitherods” (bronze brazing rod supported by three nails), horizontal bronze rods (bridge-like devices), a curved line of finishing nails, and texturedsurface material. Contact microphones (pickups) are attached to the underside. Tom Nunn has designed, built and performed with original instruments asan improviser since 1976.

EDT 4034TOM NUNNBurning PalmsTom Nunn, Octatonic T-Rodimba

Tom Nunn performs solo improvisations on his original instrument, the Octatonic T-Rodimba. Each of the ten pieces on this CD discovers a differentsound world as Tom plucks, scrapes, strikes, and bows his way through an imaginative and highly evolved sonic journey. - Text from GarudaRecords

EDT 4044TOM NUNNPeering OverVarious Artists, Tom Nunn’s instruments

"This amazing set of sounding durations owes its brilliance to master instrument innovator Tom Nunn of San Francisco. He built all the instruments utilizedon this recording, which is a live adventure that took place at the Crucible Steel Gallery in San Francisco in the fall of 1997.The electroacoustic percussion boards are high-grade 3/4” plywood sheets of various sizes, with sound making devices attached, such as threaded steelrods, bronze rods, wires, nails, springs, textures surfaces and more.pitched drums! In this recording two sets were used.The applause at the end reminds you that this indeed has been a live performance, which makes the magnificent result




EDT4056JESS ROWLANDThe Shape of PoisonJess Rowland - piano/laptop

Shape of Poison, for solo piano performance and electronics, mixes unique live electro-acoustic experimentation with cut-up gamelan, crunched-outCasio tones, and other uncharted sonic landscapes. The pieces documented on this CD were recorded live at a February 2007 artist-in-residenceperformance at ODC Theater in San Francisco, commissioned by choreographer Manuelito Biag. Intended originally for dance, the music creates anenveloping environment in which drama and movement play out.

Style: Ambient experimentalFormat: CDRetail: $12.00

TOM NUNN

POSITIVE KNOWLEDGE

JESS ROWLAND

EDT 4018POSITIVE KNOWLEDGELIVE IN NEW YORKWilber Morris - bass Michael Wimberly - drumsIjeoma Thomas- spoken word, percussionOluyemi Thomas - bass clarinet, c-melody sax, flute,musette




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This rare recording thought to be lost, was presented live from the Hotel Utah in San Francisco. The group was specifically formed for this performancepresented by the late great Dark Circle Lounge Series in the mid ninties. Now the band has reformed and is armed and dangerous with their firstrelease, Out of Town, mixing free form noise, jazz, and grunge funk beats.


EDT 4002GUINEA PIGOut Of TownDoug Carroll- electric cello Drew Gardner-drumsTony Passarell- saxophones, pocket trumpetRent Romus- saxophones, voice

EDT4028RENT ROMUS’ Lords of OutlandCulture of PainRent Romus - alto/c-melody saxophones, zitherod, voiceCJ Borosque – fx pedals & acoustic guitarsRay Schaeffer - 6 string elec fretless bassPhilip Everett - drums, perc, autoharp

Rent Romus' long awaited release since 2000 with his ever changing group collective The Lords of Outland, crosses over the boundries of jazz andimprovisation infusing noise, free thematic creation, and dismayed sonic expression on the state of the 'union', and its self-proclaimed iron fisted mightyhand of destruction and power as a means to world diplomacy and control.


JH9503JOHN TCHICAI with Rent Romus' Lords of OutlandAdapt…OR DIE!John Tchicai - tenor saxophoneRent Romus - alto & sop. saxophonesJon Birdsong - sousaphoneDave Mihaly - drums

Rent Romus extends his ethos "to continually be on the path for something new" with the self-explanatory Adapt... or Die!. This recording revamps theLords of Outland into a more deviant configuration joined by drummer Dave Mihaly and sousaphonist Jon Birdsong. This project is also blessed with theimmense presence of master tenor saxist John Tchicai. The shift in instrumentation provides a punchier, more expansive format for Romus' self-proclaimed "Nordic Viking Jazz" or "Bull in China Shop" attitude toward improv. With a post-grunge audacity, Romus kicks solos that he says come"straight from the groin" -- all of which bodes well for this sonic explorer.


JH9493RENT ROMUS’ Lords of OutlandYou'll Never Be The SameRent Romus - alto & sop. saxophonesJason "Jay O" Olaine - trumpetVytas "Brock Lee" Nagisetty - bass Andrew Borger -drums

This raw, gut level, on the edge recording places the listener smack dab in the middle of Blondie's Jazz Bar in San Francisco on a cold night in February1995. YOU'LL NEVER BE THE SAME is a musical journey combining a prima sense of groove and improvisation with Romus' "X" generation angst. Thisseven-cut release pushes the envelope with Romus' original compositions, which follows a gut level groove, and then builds upon that structure withfree form improvisation. The music takes the attitude of the grunge music movement, and incorporates it into an acoustic, improvised setting. Throughthis concept of strange bedfellows the music appeals to the hard core jazz fan as well as the alternative music fan.


EDT4064RENT ROMUS’ Lords of OutlandYou can sleep when you’re dead!Rent Romus - alto, soprano, and C-melody saxophones, voice, accordionCJ Borosque – fx pedalsRay Schaeffer - 6 string elec fretless bassPhilip Everett - drums, perc, autoharp

The Lords of Outland present their latest black metal deth jazz sequel to Culture of Pain.In this day, this dawn, when privacy rapidly begins to dwindle…where the difference between inside and outside of one’s head or one’s house or one’sinbox are growing more blurred….we find ourselves in new territory, a no man’s land where everyone has fifteen hours of fame, whether they know it ornot. There is no choice anymore in what is open to the electronic voyeur. The eyes of the world are upon us and we are all stripped naked on the internet,over the phone, in our email and in our very thoughts. Nothing is hidden from the watchful eyes of the 'gods'. We are on display for their amusement.However, as the watcher watches so too do we watch him. So too do we indulge in voyeuristic fashion, in the analysis of his behavior. He is the wolf to


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EDT 4009 - Double CD SetJIM RYAN’S FORWARD ENERGYCONFIGURATIONS 2002JIM RYAN alto/tenor sax, flute, perc.ALICIA MANGAN - tenor sax SPIRIT – drums, percussionSCOTT R. LOONEY - prep. piano PETER VALSAMIS - drumsRENT ROMUS - alto/soprano sax DONALD ROBINSON - drumsEDDIE GALE - trumpet DAMON SMITH - contrabassJOHN ‘Waveman’ GRUNTFEST - alto ADAM LANE - contrabass

“ A philosopher by academic training and a prolific author, Ryan took up music during the late 1960s while living in Paris. Already a fan of bebop, and a nascent bohemian incircles that included William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, he came under the sway of expatriate avant-garde jazz artists, including Archie Shepp, Anthony Braxton, the ArtEnsemble of Chicago, and Steve Lacy. Configuratons 2002 is a full spectrum summation of Ryan’s musical history and experience, realized in moments of extemporaneouscollaboration with like-minded co-conspirators.”– Derk Richardson, San Francisco Chronicle


JH 1136RENT ROMUS’ LIFE’S BLOOD TRIOBlood MotionsRenr Romus - alto, soprano saxStefan Pasborg - drums/perc.Jonas Westergaard - bass

Blood Motions is Rent Romus's Danish connection. Along with some of the best young Danish talent – Stephen Pasborg, drums, and JonasWestergaard, bass – Romus wields his horn in and out of originals written while in Copenhagen and some unique and memorable standards.


EDT4049Jim Ryan's Forward EnergyFE3 PortlandJim Ryan, alto/tenor sax and fluteRobert Jones, double bassAndrew Wilshusen, drums

Jim Ryan plays alto/tenor sax and flute on this recording. He founded Forward Energy ten years ago playing with various bay area musicians using thefree jazz improv style he learned during a year-long participation in Steve Lacy’s weekly open sessions in Paris during the early 1970’s. He has honedhis style to a sharp precision. "I'm always glad when I find musicians whose spirit is rooted in real, pure free jazz; Forward Energy - led by poet andsax/flute player Jim Ryan - is a fantastic collective..." - Massimo Ricci, Touching Extremes

Style: avant-garde jazzFormat: Replicated CDRetail: $12.00

EDT4048Jim Ryan's Forward EnergyFE3 OaklandJim Ryan, alto/tenor sax and fluteStephen Flinn, drumsScott R. Looney, piano

Jim Ryan plays alto/tenor sax and flute on this recording. He founded Forward Energy ten years ago playing with various bay area musicians using thefree jazz improv style he learned during a year-long participation in Steve Lacy’s weekly open sessions in Paris during the early 1970’s. He has honedhis style to a sharp precision.


EDT4025Jim Ryan's Forward EnergyWhere Are They?Jim Ryan- alto/tenor sax, flute, voiceEddie Gale trumpet Alicia Mangan tenor saxScott R. Looney piano Kristjan Bondesson bassMarshall Trammell drums

This highly controversial release from one of the jazz masters of the beat generation presents his powerful group Forward Energy in "Where Are They?"In one of Jim Ryan’s best musical recordings to date, you get full bodied jazz explorations from lyrical flute work to full force high energy driving freewheeling swing. Guests include the legendary former Blue Note trumpet player Eddie Gale as well as young Los Angeles lionesses tenor saxophonistAlicia Mangan. Employing his unique classic poetry and slamming saxophone work, Jim presents thought provoking music that will keep you on your toes.


EDT4063Jim RyanGhost Dog Tour CompilationJim Ryan, alto/tenor sax and flute& 27 improvisers from around the Mid-West USA

A trip to the underground of cutting-edge music, the Ghost Dog Tour features eleven carefully honed works from over twelve hours of live recordingsmade during May and June 2007 in six U.S. cities: St. Paul, Minneapolis, Chicago, Urbana IL, Columbus OH, and New York. Jim Ryan traveled by bus,hooking up with advanced players (over two dozen), sometimes gathered under his Forward Energy banner, and sometimes as guest performer withlocal groups. This 73+ minute CD exemplifies the vitality of the will to musical creation that remains hidden beneath the slick commercial flim-flam thatis pushed down the throat of the average music buying public. - Saftig von Heimlischbaden


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EDT 4014Left Coast Improv GroupErnesto Diaz-Infante - prepared guitar, violin, percussionJeff Hobbs - violin, cornet, clarinet, sax, trumpetRon Heglin – trombone, voice Scott R. Looney - electronicsBob Marsh- cello, violin, voice Jim Ryan – flutes, saxophone, percussionKaren Stackpole - drum kit, percussion, gongs

In the spirit of S.F. Bay Area artistic experimentation and exploration, THE LEFT COAST IMPROV GROUP (TLCIG) has crystalized from divergent musicaland geographic backgrounds to form a unit of unprecedented talent. Its members are products of deep dedication, long study (both in and outside ofacademia), and many years of performance experience. The emphasis of the group's approach is on relaxation, freedom, and listening, rather thanindividual virtuosity which, nevertheless, underlies the ensemble as an unfailing support for its cohesive expressiveness.The Left Coast Improv Group an ever-changing configuration and brainchild of the Improv Wizard himself Jim Ryan presents their most stellar recordingto date now available on Edgetone Records.

Style: experimentalFormat: CDrRetail: $10.00

EDT 4013SAINT OF KILLERSAlwyn Quebido - electric guitarJesse Quattro -vocalsTyler Cox -drumsGuests: Matt Waters - saxophones Miya Osaki - bass

Saint of Killers produces a raucous unrelenting storm of sound pummeling improvisation with a sonic sledge hammer. The group's primary objective isto leave listeners with the sensation that life is not all it's made out to be, that beauty and happiness can only be found once one can actuallyacknowledge the ultimate truth of the ugliness and horrors that is human nature.

Style: experimental rockFormat: CDRetail: $13.00

EDT 4026SAY BOK GWAICanto-Core:A NEW CHINESE AMERICAN EXPERIENCEAlex Yeung - guitar, voiceAndre Custodio - drums, voice

Say Bok Gwai is San Francisco's first Chinese American hardcore band, melding two distinct cultures into a completely unique sound. Say Bok Gwai'soriginal compositions are rooted in American punk/thrash/hardcore music and sung primarily in Cantonese. The subject matter ranges from ChineseAmerican identity to grappling with traditional Chinese values and down with "the man" aesthetics.Say Bok Gwai is a Chinese American band that pushes the envelope of musical, social, and political extremes. Say Bok Gwai shows a new face ofChinese American music and is not for the timid or easily offended.

Style: punk rockFormat: CDRetail: $10.00

E. Doctor Smith’s original invention, the Drummstick, has a vertical design that enhances his ability to digitally tap, slap, flam, and roll. This CDshowcases the versatility of his instrument and presents truly inspired left-the-box-way-behind music that smacks you up one side of your head whilecaressing you down the other. For the Drummstick’s 10th anniversary, Doc reassembled many of the musicians from the Drummstick’s debut release in2000, as well as some great new ones. Rejoining Doc for Drummstick 2 are bassist and co-producer Celia DuBose; Jack Wright with his array of electricguitars and loops; Neil Mezebish on acoustic and MIDI saxes; trumpeter and Feat of Clay co-founder the “Mad Swede,” aka Eric Dahlman; and his long-time collaborator and K2 co-founder Seth “Elgie” Elgart on assorted iBooks, vintage synthesizers, keyboards and samples.


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EDT 4022TRI-CORNERED TENT SHOWLegion of DagonAndre Custodio - synthesizer, percussion Philip Everett - drums,autoharp, elec. perc. Ray Schaeffer - electric bass Jeff Hobbs - violin,trumpet, cornet, vocals Rent Romus - reeds, flute, toys, vocals

This newest CD release from Tri-Cornered Tent Show, with guests Rent Romus - reeds/voice/zither rod and Jeff Hobbs- violin/trumpet, is inspired byearly 20th Century horror-scifi writer H.P. Lovecraft’s 38-sonnet piece entitled “Fungi In Yuggoth”. Also included is the unearthed and unfinishedoperetta by Dr. Harold Farnese who originally wrote a set of musical pieces for Lovecraft’s sonnets, and is the loose basis for the finished Legion ofDagon project presented here.

Style: avant-gardeFormat: CDRetail: $12.00

EDT 4033TRI-CORNERED TENT SHOWThe FoolkillerPhilip Everett – drums Ray Scheaffer - bassAndre Custodio – inventions Rent Romus – saxophones, vocals, electronicsDina Emerson – vocals CJ Borosque – fx pedals

Style: experimental rockFormat: CDRetail: $13.00

Tri-Cornered Tent Show presents The Foolkiller, a post-apocalyptic poetry music, and song portraying rage, revenge, and redemption, transcending theacts of murder madness and mayhem commonly defined as war religion and politics. Sporting an extended ensemble of some of the finest improvisersfrom the San Francisco Bay Area, The Foolkiller spreads its shadow across a wide array of style and sound creating one this year’s most innovativeoperatic improvisational theme pieces. A must have for those who like to collect abstract and obscure reference music.

EDT 4046E. Doctor SmithThe DrummstickE. Doctor Smith, The Drummstick Celia DuBose, Bass and VocalsJack Wright, Guitars Neil Mezebish, MIDI Sax and FluteEric Dahlman, Trumpet/Jamman Carlos Augustus, Guitar SynthesizerChris Gulino, Banjo on “Futureboy”

Having played for 20 years in jazz, fusion, pop, and folk bands as a serious student of drums, E. Doctor Smith developed a love of digital drumming thatcompelled him to design and build an instrument that would give him maximum flexibility as a writer, drummer, and performer. The Drummstick, apercussion controller with 16 finger-pads mounted on a 2 x 6 piece of wood, is worn like a guitar and used exclusively to achieve Doc’s primary goal inlife— to make spirits dance. “From the banjo-meets-Bruford tribal groove of 'Futureboy' to the atmospheric sonic landscapes of “Girl of a ThousandDays,” E. Doctor Smith treads a musical road less traveled. His intrepid ensemble’s acid jazz explorations wander into every world musical nook andcranny, making this collection a trip well worth taking.


EDT 5004YEHUDITDifferent Strokes...LiveYehudit - electric violinBeth Snellings - cello


A Very Unusual Jazz Duo, two classically trained and jazz savvy string players stretch the bounds of their instruments to create a unique approach tojazz standards and original compositions. Formed in the spring of 2000, Different Strokes has performed at venues around the Bay Area, including theOld First Church Concert Series, San Francisco Arts Festival, the SIMM series, the People in Plazas Series, the Canvas Gallery, the Dolores Park Café andthe Citizen Cupcake Café (San Francisco), the Mill Valley Fall Arts Festival, the Bird’s Nest Jazz Series and the Voila Juice Bar and Café (Oakland),Rustico’s Restaurant and Caffe Trieste (Sausalito and Berkeley) as well as the Healdsburg Society for Music and Art. Different Strokes is also on theperformance roster of Bread and Roses, Inc.

EDT 4055SON OF GUNNAR TON OF SHELS/TAram Shelton – saxophones, electronicsSteini Gunnarson – guitar, electronics

Style: experimental jazzFormat: CDRetail: $13.00

Son of Gunnar, Ton of Shel is the duo of Aram Shelton and Steini Gunnarson. Their music, which is largely improvised, is held together by a sharedsense of commitment to long forms and instinctive timing. Using prepared guitar, wind instruments and live sample-based processing via PD and MSP,they create thick multilayered textural music that is guided by their expressive melodicism.

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EDT 5001YEHUDITValentineYehudit - five string electric violinJohn Hoy – guitars Cindy Browne - bassKaren Horner – bass Curt Moore - drums

Style: classic jazzFormat: CDRetail: $14.00

Each of these classic songs is a valentine - a celebration of the joy and gift of love. I imagine that you might play them while you sit down to a quietdinner with your sweetie, with flowers and candlelight. In recording these songs, I manifest my profound love for the great American traditions of jazzand songwriting. - Yehudit




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THE ABSTRACTIONS - Edgetone Records Romus – alto & soprano sax, flute, voice, zitherod Ray Schaeffer – bass Novo Navigatio (New Journey) is the Abstractions' third release of innovative